11:34 PM,
Oct. 28, 2010

Leigh Rubin, the writer and artist behind the Rubes comic.

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The artist as a young man faces many daunting challenges. "Anybody realize how big a pile of 5,000 books is?" asks Leigh Rubin. "On a pallet, at your parents' house?"

Rubin, the writer and artist behind the syndicated Rubes comic, spoke for nearly two hours to about 100 fans of his work at the Democrat and Chronicle on Thursday evening, after a similar engagement earlier in the day at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Rubin frequently uses cows, and some less intellectually engaged human characters, to lampoon this world, an admittedly easy target. And all it took, he said after ...